Riven vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Riven
based on 2,355 Riven vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Gragas
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Riven vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several important Riven versus Gragas counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Riven normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Gragas
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Who is Better, Riven or Gragas?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Gragas, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter for Gragas.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Gragas, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Riven into Gragasas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Gragas matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Gragas. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often gets more CS relative to Gragas. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Gragas build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Gragas than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Gragas with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Gragas as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Riven vs Gragas battles, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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